Chips with Chinese

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Okay, so my favourite thread in a long time has vanished and it's left me with feelings of confusion and a yearning to know.........

Do chips belong anywhere in a Chinese takeaway?!

I think they do and would argue that they don't just belong - they MAKE a Chinese takeaway. Excuse me! Chips and curry sauce, how can these not be a part of your meal?! Duh!

YABU - Chips don't belong anywhere near my Chinese - What are you crazy?!

YANBU - OMG make mine a double portion and no going easy on that curry sauce!

I love Chinese chips. So much nicer than chippy chips.

I absolutely crave Chinese chips. I am a carb fiend and so are my 2 DSs. We share, chow mein, egg fried rice & chips and either curry sauce or sweet and sour.

As per PP, I would not order this in company.

Always salt and pepper chips, they are heavenly. I prefer them to a Chinese meal itself.

I live in the Middle bit of Blighty, chips come from the chippie, with fish, pie or whatever, Chinese comes with rice or noodles and Indian comes with rice or Naan! .

I always assumed that chips on a Chinese menu must be for kids who weren't into Chinese food yet (so they'd have something to eat while their parents feasted on crispy chilli beef and egg fried rice).

I confess to previously being a Chinese food snob and thought only heathens had chips with Chinese. My darling SIL has converted me and I'm happy to renounce my ways for chips dipped in sweet and sour sauce.

I rarely eat chips, but the last time I really enjoyed some was on a gloriously sunny day in Tynemouth this summer, eating chips dipped in a delicious curry sauce.

From a fish and chip shop, not a Chinese takeaway

Haha everyone always looks at me in disgust for ordering chips with Chinese takeaway! Glad I’m not the only one. It works well.

@BobbinThreadbare123 omfg, you are talking my language, lived in Aigburth right by Sefton park in my 2nd year at Liverpool and chips, rice and curry was the absolute go to when coming home from a piss up in the Craic then Casablanca’s. Pineapple fritters if I was flush-rare, my parents didn’t seem to understand that £20 a week barely paid bus fare, food for a week, plus books and bills.

Chips were the biggest seller in DFIL’s Chinese takeaway. He very rarely had an order that didn’t include a bag of chips. He kept putting the price up as an experiment to see at what point people would stop ordering them but they never did.

Salt and pepper chips every time.
Our Chinese order is basic a carb overload!

Never tried Chinese chips, but then I only learned about munchie boxes on a thread last year. Now that I’ve crunched vicariously through the last 7 pages, I’m firmly converted and have even googled my local Chinese menu. There’s an option of salt-chilli chips on there, so that’s what I’ll be getting on the next visit. Thank you pro-chip MNers.

British 'Chinese' food is pretty awful, but chips aren't out of place with it.

What I have eaten in Chinese resturants and takeaways (not in China) is not what I would call Chinese food, same as I would not call Tikka Masala and real Indian food so although I don't eat chips with Chinese I don't care who does

Same as with buffets I don't care who puts what with what

@NuniaBeeswax

"Chips and gravy is disgusting."

Imagine being this wrong about something.

Nope not wrong. It is disgusting. Gravy is disgusting on anything. Never understand having nice crispy food like chips, roast potatoes etc and then pouring gravy over them to make them soggy. Are you all babies?

The Chinese takeaway we use does the best chips ever. I was thinking about having Chinese tonight, thanks OP, that's now a definite .

We get king prawn curry, fried rice, chips, pancake rolls and ha moon vermicelli (Singapore noodles for wimps) and just share it all, plus there's more than enough leftovers for Saturday breakfast lunch.

But a question for the people of Liverpool - I am aware that a lot of fish and chip shops in Liverpool are run by Chinese people, but here in Leeds, Chinese takeaway chips (crispy, rectangular shape, no idea what they're cooked in, I don't care, but they're amazing) are quite different to fish and chip shop chips (chips quite square and soft, cooked in beef dripping).

Are the Liverpool fish and chip shop chips like our Chinese chips, fish and chip shop chips, or something else?

Oh yes always chips with Chinese for me. Munchy boxes are just the best.

Never understand having nice crispy food like chips, roast potatoes etc and then pouring gravy over them to make them soggy

Do you not have gravy on a roast dinner then?

I had chips Chinese curry at the weekend, love them with a Chinese

So exciting - it's Friday which means it's takeaway night. Woohoo!! And you know it's going to be Chinese with CHIPS. I'm going to be thinking about this all day.

Reading through this I feel sad for those of you that haven't experienced proper Chinese chips, they're not like chippy chips. These are fat, crispy, and fried in who knows what, chonks of heavenly goodness!

Those that like their chips with an Indian, I get that and I'm with you - not quite up there with Chinese chips but a treat for the taste buds nonetheless.

And I'm not from the North or Ireland - East Anglian, I guess I just hit it lucky with the local takeaways.

“ Gravy is disgusting on anything."

Also incorrect.

@BarbaraofSeville chippies in Liverpool are usually Chinese-run. There are some 'Anglo' ones obviously. Chinese people have been in Liverpool and surrounds for ~200 years in large numbers. Chinese chippy chips are the same as you might imagine a chippy chip to be; I live in Cumbria now and it's the same type of chips. Interestingly, my local Chinese takeaway here does a different chip style to the ones from the fish & chip shops!

I can fully recommend a visit to Liverpool's Chinatown: there is a beautiful paifang marking the boundary and the street signs are in English and Chinese.

Too many chips in this post!

Welsh girl here - Chips and curry sauce from the Chinese every time

As I'm reading through this thread, it's slowly dawning on me that in some parts of the country, "chippies" and "Chinese takeaway" are two separate entities! I'm in Liverpool and I can hardly think of any chippies that aren't Chinese, other than two which are Greek but still also sell Chinese dishes. So the two are inseparable for me. I don't think we've ever had a Chinese chippy meal without chips.